Incumbent will be responsible for planning, coordinating, managing and organizing of all activities of the Leaf processing department, as well as Controlling processing activities and ensuring required quality and volume delivery together with efficient cooperation between leaf production, quality and operation teams. 

The incumbent will need to deeply cooperate with the above-mentioned teams’ leads, motivate, and guide them along improvement process maximizing knowledge transfer

Operational Responsibilities

• Ensures adequate, regular, and matter-of-fact analysis methods related to production line stoppages, breakdowns, and wastes. Identifies improvement opportunities, initiates, and manages the process of problem solving aiming at improvement of Production KPIs.
• Ensures the efficient and effective allocation of manpower and equipment.
• Conducts planned inventories of fixed assets of the processing shop floor
• Roll-out practical use of elements of Lean Manufacturing (5S3R, 5 Why etc.) to ensure processing areas improvement.
• Responsible for preparation, optimization and roll-out of all leaf processes and procedures
• Organizes and strengthens maintenance and regular machinery cleaning activities through optimization of relevant procedures, ensuring other factories’ best-practice implementation and through regular follow up and supervision of execution by production maintenance team.
• Observes and monitors the observance of fire safety instructions and labor regulations by subordinates. Organizes and maintains his/her workplace in accordance with the requirements of 5S3R, rules and instructions for labor protection, safety, industrial sanitation, and fire safety.

Job Requirements

Other main job requirements:

• Higher education, preferably BSc degree in processing related specialization
• 5+ years in a similar role(s) / relevant experience, experience in processing industries & BSC degree in processing related specialization.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
• Profound knowledge of production technologies
• Knowledge of Quality Standards, processes, and procedures; Standards of factory improvement programs
• Advanced data analytics skills

How to Apply

Qualified applicants are invited to submit their application letter and Curriculum vitae only through email address Careersethiopia@jti.com and the application should be before the application deadline.

 Application email subject shall state the position title. Failure to comply with the guideline may lead to immediate rejection. We highly encourage female candidates to apply.  Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted